School Run I - hate it

[birdsandbees]

Some of the parents near me have started a walk to school group, they walk along a route collecting children and then the same at night dropping the children back at home, the parents have been police checked, and the children love to walk along with their friends.

[Titian]

Is it possible to get up a little earlier, move your car closer to the school, go back home, walk the kids to school and then jump in the car to work?

 

Go on! Think of the good the extra walk will do you!

 

If I did that I would have to get my children up much earlier, too early for them to be able to eat anything or have had enough sleep. I'd rather they went to school with a decent breakfast inside them, rather than walking backwards and forwards on an empty stomach. My hubby has already gone to work by that time and they are far too young to be left alone while I walked back from the school.

[cgksheff]

....... My hubby has already gone to work by that time and they are far too young to be left alone while I walked back from the school.

 

Makes sense.

[libuse]

Well, I know nothing about children, schools, school allocation, etc... But, there was a story on Look North last week about a little boy who was, I think, 4 or 5? He had to get a school bus home and the bus service had all sorts of policies about dropping children off only when their parent/carer was waiting for them. Obviously, the reason this became a news story was that the kid was dropped off at the wrong stop; no parent/carer, distressed child, potential dangers, etc etc.

 

It just made me think that whilst I've always been quite irritated at the school run brigade, if schools do have to be that far away (because of poor allocation? I don't know) I really wouldn't want my 4-5 year old making that journey. I was honestly quite suprised at the fact that it happens. Maybe sometimes the school run brigade feel they haven't a realistic alternative?

[TheSocialist]

change your working hours under employment law you have the right to flexible working

[Zaphod]

Oh well hopefully we will have run of cheap oil in a decade or so (look up peak oil) we will then have to revert back to a more natural way of living, the school run will be done on horseback - lol. When I were a lad you'd 'ave got a clip roun't ear if ye'd asked yer mum for a lift t' school, and yer never saw a fat kid.

[TheSocialist]

of course im not talking about people who live out in the middle of nowere or people with mobility problems im talking about the idoits who live in some cases in the next street they in addition block the road up for everyone else and what really gets up my fudge tunnel is the ones who drive the off the road mosters like driving a sherman tank through a narrow street the word odd the road should tell them what they are actually for

[barmyowls]

Is it just me but i have two children I sometimes walk to School or the wife does it what makes me mad is those idiot parents driving to school when they only live a few streets away. I think they should be forced off there lazy selfish backsides and be made to walk in 15 mins walk is hardly going to kill them and might stop there kids getting fat and lazy. I used to walk 2 miles to School and if anyone replys with the usual peraniod but there odd men about thing i dont buy that exscuse its just pandering to media driven hysteria to justfy being to lazy to force there huge backsides out of the car seat:rant:

 

I understand where your at, but some parents drop there kids off then have to go to WORK!!! or go do there shopping etc

[Longcol]

I understand where your at, but some parents drop there kids off then have to go to WORK!!! or go do there shopping etc

 

Quite agree.

 

In an ideal world we could organise our lives to walk our kids to school (and back home again).

 

Reality is that many of us have to organise our lives around work.

[Mathom]

I often wonder how many people who rant about this also live within a fifteen minute walk of a bus stop and could get to work that way but don't